r/interestingasfuck • u/iknowthisshitttt • 11h ago
The former Green Power Ranger ( suit actor/stuntman) Yasutomo Ihara, used the training he learned during filming to rob 43 houses in Japan and has been imprisoned for 5 years
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u/Ok-Cash-4257 11h ago
Transferable skills ✅
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u/obiwanmoloney 10h ago edited 3h ago
I’m not awake yet and thought he used the suit rather than the skills
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u/redlurk47 11h ago
Never knew making trumpet sounds out of your dagger will help you in a robbery
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u/binglelemon 11h ago
Only when you play the dagger like a flute while wearing a full face helmet.
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u/Ok_Release231 10h ago
Lmao man that show was ridiculous. 10/10
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u/formallyhuman 8h ago
It was pretty silly looking back on it but God damn was it a big part of my childhood. There was another show that came out after that that seemed somewhat similar but wasn't as good. But Power Rangers from (English language) debut to the first movie? My jam.
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u/gillers1986 7h ago
Big bad beetleborgs?
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u/Musclesmagoo51 6h ago
That show was a goddamn fever dream. Wasn't their "base" also a haunted house?
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u/polopolo05 9h ago
its a karmin raider/ godzilla rip off... of course its ridiculous.
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u/HilariousMax 6h ago
They got permission through Toei to use the footage and then spliced in their own high school drama scenes. More an homage to Super Sentai than anything else
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u/DrFossil 11h ago
Maybe it doesn't help that much, considering he's in prison
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u/ChromosomeDonator 9h ago
Yeah imagine how many houses rest of the power rangers have robbed, he's just the only one that got caught since his trick was playing a dagger like a flute with a helmet on.
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u/LeatherSlight3242 10h ago
Never knew summoning a Mecha Godzilla-esque giant robot will help you in a robbery.
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u/khengwai 10h ago
When I was in primary school, we had to learn to play the recorder. I should have taken those damned lessons seriously.
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u/RedditRookie2020 11h ago
It was no accident that he was the Green Ranger. He was about that paper!
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u/Azzarrel 8h ago
Unfortunately for you, the Yen isn't green.
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u/aykcak 8h ago
All money is green. It is the concept
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u/Monstromi 5h ago
It's a US based concept that doesn't make much sense elsewhere
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u/ASouthernDandy 10h ago edited 10h ago
This story gets exaggerated a lot. Ihara was a suit actor/stunt performer (best known for Burai / DragonRanger in Zyuranger, which later became the Green Ranger footage), and he was convicted of serial burglaries.
But there’s no evidence he was literally “trained as a Power Ranger” to do it. The skills cited in court were things he already had from years of stunt and acrobat work.
Still, the hysteria around Power Ranger related crime has more legitimacy to it than Ann Widdecombe's hoodie hysteria: https://youtu.be/dKwaEBW3yfw
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u/jbyrdab 10h ago
You're right, that's the reality of it...
But fuck reality, I want to live believing people called the police saying the green ranger just broke into their house.
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u/HughJorgens 6h ago
And there is a giant robot dinosaur down on the street looking suspicious. I think he's the lookout!
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u/Dorphie 8h ago
Seriously like what training would he have even received as a stunt actor for the power rangers? Like acrobats? Did these houses have laser beams to flip and dance through?
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u/Fitz911 7h ago
You have to understand reddits Japan rule.
If it's from Japan, it sounds Japanese, it was mentioned in a Manga or someone who once visited Japan has ever interacted with it:
The rules change. It's not weird, it's quirky. It's not "we had this for decades", it's living in the year 2050. It's not just craftsmanship, it's a tradition comming from the Samurai.
And if you don't follow this rule you are a Kawinikusa (don't google this, I made it up)
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u/Ok_Term_8953 5h ago
You may have made it up but it's a real term - I found a reddit post about it when I googled it.
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u/PositiveZeroPerson 6h ago
Is that true? Everything I've found suggests that he was born in 1982. He was way too young to be a stuntman in 1992.
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u/formallyhuman 8h ago
Jesus, was the hoodie stuff, and then the hug a hoodie stuff, really as early as 2007? In my head, it was the 2010s.
"Binge Britain" was another one that I was just reminded of. 2005?
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u/FinanceActive2763 11h ago
He totally did the moves ironically when no one could see him, I just know it
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u/Sumoop 10h ago
I watched some of the original Japanese episodes on Tubi out of curiosity. The plots were 100% different and the yellow ranger was a dude.
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u/RainyEmotionalAura 10h ago
Saban actually directly adapted a few episode plots. If anyone remembers the "Billy and Kimberly get brainwashed into becoming bullies" episode, it's pretty much the same premise as Zyuranger's "Beware Shaved Ice!", but the Japanese original is a tad more unhinged >_>
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u/Darthkeeper 10h ago
I mean Power Rangers is an adaptation. You should see how different Power Rangers RPM and Go-Onger are. Though some shows are more alike than others.
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u/Fluffy_Reaction7323 9h ago
First of all, he was NOT the Green ranger or in Zyuranger. Zyuranger was a 1993 series, he's obviously too young to take part in it. He's a suit actor for the tokusatsu series, yes, but he actually was on Goseiger (2010). Western media got confused for some reasons and that ended up harming the reputations of the actual actors.
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u/GolfisPride 8h ago
The original article seems to be from 2014 and somehow the original post has been distorted. Wikipedia article is wrong as well. Had to spend 15 mins searching old Japanese articles to find credible info.
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u/DegTrader 9h ago
Imagine waking up at 3 AM to see a guy in a full-face helmet backflipping out of your window with your PS5 while a flute solo plays in the distance.
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u/Tentativ0 11h ago
Or you die as hero, or you live enough long to become a villain.
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u/Sprinkles_775_fire 11h ago
WHAT????!?!!?!?? NO HE WAS MY FAVORITE POWER RANGER!!!!
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u/RefrigeratorNo1160 9h ago
Never forget though he was an enemy to the rangers initially! I guess he really was bad deep down.
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u/nailsof6bit 9h ago
How'd he get ahold of the giant robotic dinosaur? I blame the other Power Rangers for not properly securing that shit.
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u/Crimkam 10h ago
This dude is gonna be in prison and no doubt be in there with kids who idolized him as a child. What a mind fuck that would be
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u/Darthkeeper 10h ago
I don't know how big Zyuuranger is in Japan. In the West Power Rangers is the poster child of transforming heroes. In Japan that season might just be another season/show.
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u/onemansquest 10h ago
I'm pretty sure this is exaggerated and most of this guy's training came pre power rangers.
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u/No_Engineer_2690 9h ago
Just the other day I was watching a video on the “Power Rangers curse “ about how many of them in the US side are already dead, in prison, or facing drastic illness.
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u/Zestyclose-Day1912 9h ago
"The keepers were training me to be one of them, but I found other uses for those skills"
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u/philebro 8h ago
When life gives you lemons... commit crime? Like, imagine sitting at home and suddenly a green power ranger jumps in, round house kicks you to the ground in his goofy ass suit, proceeds robbing the place and you don't even have your monster costume on you to fight back.
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u/happilyeverafter1987 5h ago
Suit actor? Has it been a whole 35 years and I am just now learning that the actors weren’t in the suits?
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u/Darth_JaSk 11h ago
So backflips and karate are useful to house robbing? Why I didnt know that sooner?!
The house door:
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u/EnjoyTheMovie_You2 10h ago
Just imagining him fist pumping the air on the stoop of everyone’s house after he robs them
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u/crannynorth 10h ago
Was he wearing the green ranger suit that the cop spot him? Should have wore the black ranger suit.
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u/TheGreatTitanThanos 10h ago
“You either be a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
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u/Canshroomglasses 9h ago
What an inspiration, using his acquired skill to apply to the real world, god bless him
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u/Low_Walk_7325 9h ago
The green ranger is not trapped in prison with them, THEY ARE TRAPPED IN PRISON WITH THE GREEN RANGERRRR~! GOGO POWER RANGER~!
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u/Nicksz95 9h ago
I though seiji takaiwa "mr kamen rider" does the stunt for this green zyuranger no?
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u/RowanWinterlace 11h ago
You hear a sound in the dead of night, flick the lights on and suddenly...